This PowerPoint about reading compliance was presented by Amit Sharma. It describes his research into factors that prevent students from doing course readings and strategies that instructors could use to improve reading compliance.

Best practices for a welcoming climate for diversity. It is an activity from our Creating Inclusive Courses workshop. The University Faculty Senate refers to it as "best practices for a welcoming climate" in an Advisory and Consultative Report from the Senate Committee on Educational Equity and Campus Environment that requested we make it available on our website.Please consider requesting the full workshop for your academic unit.

Inclusive Teaching packet of strategies activity, websites, citations, & handling hot moments. Note: the strategies are not intended to serve as a checklist of activities. Simply doing these activities does not guarantee that your course is inclusive! We recommend that you consider why each is considered inclusive and make a deliberate attempt to implement them as inclusive strategies.

This book is a collection of 14 articles from the Journal of College Science Teaching that describe techniques that promote higher-order thinking and inquiry skills. The techniques are alternatives to lecturing, and range from small tweaks to large-scale changes for courses.

Instructional Foundations is a series of workshops for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and instructorsfrom all disciplines who have never taught at the university level (grading experience OK) prior to Fall 2016. Theseries is designed to provide people new to college teaching with knowledge, skills and confidence they can use intheir first teaching experience.

The Role of Interactive Digital Simulations in Student Conversations About Visualizing MoleculesYuen-ying Carpenter, Erin Rae SullivanProceedings of the University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Vol. 2, 2017

AbstractThe visualization of chemical compounds in three-dimensions is a foundational skill in the study and practice of chemistry and related fields, and one which has the potential to be supported by interaction with virtual models. Here, we present a collaborative learning activity piloted in first-year chemistry which investigates if inquiry-driven interactive technology can contribute meaningfully to student conversations around this topic, and how students’ conversations and practices may shift when driven by feedback from an interactive simulation. Our initial observations from this pilot project suggest that students engaged in collaborative sense-making and discussion around key ideas throughout this activity. Students’ post-activity reflections also highlighted their positive experiences and increased confidence with the topic afterwards. The unique dynamics of these interactions lead us to propose a novel framing of interactive visualizations as participants rather than merely as resources in student learning conversations.

Posted on Friday, September 26, 2014by Julie Thompson Klein, Ph.D. Many consider interdisciplinarity to be synonymous with teamwork. It is not. Individuals engage successfully in a variety of solo interdisciplinary activities, ranging from borrowing tools, methods, and concepts from another discipline to teaching courses that migrate to a new hybrid interdiscipline. Moreover, a team may not necessarily be interdisciplinary.

The iStudy tutorials are designed to advance students' knowledge and skills in areas that can promote overall academic achievement, such as studying, communicating, and career planning. Faculty can use the tutorials to help students adjust to college curricula and expectations or add career planning tools to syllabi.

A weblog tutorial for instructors and test writers interested in gaining a better understanding of how to use item (or test question) analysis. Item analysis provides useful information about how well test items ‘performed.’